Record-placer



L. N. HOST.

RECORD PLACER.

Armcmo min nu r. ms.

Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

UNITED STA LLU'YD N. HOST, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, IICHIGAN.

RECORD-PLACE.

i Application led llay 7,

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LLOYD N. Hos'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Record-Piacere; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in record placers for talking machines.

An im rtant object of this invention is to provi e a record placer for talking machines having means for expeditiously alining the opemng in the disk with the pin carried b the turn-table.`

A her object of this invention is to provide a record placer for talking machines which may be stamped from a single piece of metal and which may thereby be produced at a ve small cost.

A Vfurther o ject of this invention is to rovide a record placer which may be readily attached to a talking machine or removed therefrom.

Other ob'ects andadvantages of the invention wi fbe a parent during the course of the following escriptio'n.

In the accompanying drawing formi a part of this application and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a perspective of a record placer embodied in my invention,

Fig. 2. s a transverse view through a talking machine turn-table and a record, showing3 the record placer in use,

Fig. is a plan view of the turn-table and record, showing a slightly modified form of the invention applied, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmenta end elevation of the turn table and recor lacer, the view showing the manner of app ying the record.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose* of illustration is shown the preferred embodiments of my invention, the numeral 5 designates the turn-table of a talking machine and is mounted on a drive shaft 6.f The turn-table is provided with a central upstanding pin 7 adapted to be received within Aan opening 8 1n a disk 9. As illudrated in Figs. 1 and 2, I have pro- Speeitloation of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1T, 1920. ieie semi no. $95,155.

vided a record placer desi ted erally by the numeral 10. The rd l{giliicer is adapted to be arran between the disk and the turn-table an is therefore of a very thin metal. The record placer includes a plate having a radial arm 10 having an opening 11 therein adapted to receive the pm 7 of the turn-table. The forward end portion of the arm 10' is provided with outwardly diverging arms 12 extending to the periphery of the record 9. The outer ends of the arms 12I are provided with upstanding shoulders 13 adapted to be engaged by the perlphery of the disk 9. In the form of my lnvention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the shoulders 13 which are curved in the arc of a circlehaving the in 7 as a center, and form a stop are extendbd above the upper surface of the disk 9 to insure placing of the record in its proper'position on the turn-table and to bring the opening 8 in direct alinement with the pin 7. The arms 12 extend outwardly at acute angles.

In the form of my invention illustrated in Fig. 3, the record placer has its arms 14 extending outwardly at a lesser angle than is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The shoulders .15 of the construction shown in Fig. 3 terminate flush with Athe top of the record.

In the use of m invention, the record placer is I irstFpl u n the turn-table as indicated in ig 2. n placin a disk on the turn-table, its periphery is rst engaged with the shoulders vof the placer. The engagement of the ri hery of the disk with the shoulders of tb: p acer insures alinement of the opening in the disk with the pin carried by the turn-table.

v While I have shown and described the preferred embodiments of m invention it 1s understood that I may m such minor changes in arrangement and construction of parts as will remain within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

v Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A disk record placer for phonographs including, an arm ted to be mounted radially on the turn-ta le of a talking machine outwardl diverging arms secured to said iirst nam arm and extending to the periphell'y of a record, and u pwardly extendmg sho ders .carried by said outwardly dicured to said outwardl diverging arms and adapted to be engage by the periphery of a record to prevent the record rom moving edgewise when mounting the record on the turn table.

3. A disk record placer including a plurality of radially disposed arms, all of which being connected together at a common point at one end, means for mounting the arms on a turn table of a talking machine with the free ends thereof disposed outwardly, and upstanding lugs carried by the free ends of the arms against which the edge of a disk record is ada ted to rest and serving as a fulcrum for t e record in lacing the same in position on the turn ta le and to cause centerin the record to be engaged at its center by the u standing pin of the turn table.

4. n comblnation, the turn-table of a talklng maehine and a disk record, a disk pm carried by the turn table, a plate he d upon the turn-table by the pin, and means carried b the plate and curved on the are of a circle havmg the pin as a center so as to position the eye of the disk 1n allnement with the pin when the head of the 1n is in engagement with the stop.

5. T e combination with a tum-table of a tallnng machine provided with an upstandlng centering pin and a disk record, of upstanding stops carried by the turntable and curved to conform to the edge of the record and adapted to engage the record to retain the same in such position where the eye thereof will be in alinement with the upstanding pin.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CORNELIUS DE BOER, FRED P. WILMEs. 

